OG Minecraft names
An OG name is a short, common English word that someone took early, like Dog or Stone. We sort words into three classes by how common and how short they are: top words, OG words and semi-OG.
On an account a top word adds $2,000–12,000, an OG word $450–2,300 and a semi-OG word $30–250.
What counts as OG and semi-OG?
We measure how common a word is on the Zipf scale of a film-subtitle word list (SUBTLEX-US): 4.5 means about 32 times per million words, 3.5 about 3.2 times. The more common and the shorter, the higher the class.
How many OG names are there?
Of the English words in our word data, the model rates 795 as top words, 5,404 as OG words and 22,788 as semi-OG. Whether a name is free, our checker does not check.
What are OG names worth?
Our ranges show market value among serious traders, not a fire-sale price and not a reseller's copy. In forum threads that show both, the current offer was on average 57% of the buy-now price (13 threads, our survey of 2 October 2026). Within its class a name sits higher the shorter and more common it is. How the name is valued.
- Top word: $2,000–12,000 (few listings or one dominant source)
- OG word: $450–2,300 (few listings or one dominant source)
- Semi-OG: $30–250 (listings from several sellers, some sales or bids)
Do capitals, digits or underscores matter?
Capitals do not change the class. A word with an underscore in front or a digit in place of a letter counts as a minor variant ($2–25), for example _Shadow or Sh4dow. A word with digits after it, like Shadow7, is an everyday handle ($0–2).
